I have been making small pieces with materials that I can find at home since we're in quarantine. Two works are my visual diaries on certain dates related to my feeling and thoughts. On April 2, people in Brooklyn stuck at their tiny apartment made me think about the image that dollhouse people were sealed inside of tiny cubes in gum packages. On April 6, I created my own cell phone case while thinking about panic buying and hoarding of products like Lysol and Clorox during the coronavirus pandemic.
Bonam Kim, April 2, 2020, 2020. Dollhouse miniature, gum package. 3 1/2 x 2 x 1 inches.
Bonam Kim, April 6, 2020, 2020. Printing on plastic. 3 x 6 x 1/2 inches.
Bonam Kim is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Kim holds a bachelor’s degree in Sculpture from Hongik University in Seoul, Korea and a mater’s degree in Sculpture from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She was featured as an emerging artist from DongBangYoGae, Art in Culture magazine in Seoul, Korea. She has participated in the residency program at Trestle Art Space in Brooklyn, New York and awarded the Stutzman Family Foundation Graduate Fellowship for her residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. She completed a three-month residency at NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, NY and the Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY.